Dick Gephardt
Dick Gephardt
Richard Andrew "Dick" Gephardtis an American politician who served as a United States Representative from Missouri from 1977 to 2005. A member of the Democratic Party, he was House Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995 and Minority Leader from 1995 to 2003. He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 1988 and 2004. Gephardt was mentioned as a possible vice presidential nominee in 1988, 1992, 2000, 2004, and 2008...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth31 January 1941
CountryUnited States of America
I'm a parent of three children. If I thought that some politician was playing with their lives for political purposes, I'd be morally outraged.
the Republicans had tremendous amounts of special interest money. The pharmaceutical companies spent probably $50 million or $60 million supporting all Republican candidates and that blurred a lot of the issue on prescription drugs.
These numbers are bouncing around. This is a volatile race,
I think by even President Bush's own standards, the themes that he used in the campaign and after, he hasn't measured up,
My parents wanted me to be a Baptist minister. I was a youth minister in my church when I was still in college. And I was in a lot of theater in high school, and at Northwestern.
grounded in serious foreign policy experience and expertise.
I think when everything is finally considered I'll have a lot of support -- strong support -- not only from labor unions but from working people.
President Bush has not yet lived up to his promise to be a reformer with results, ... During the campaign, he said he would fight for bipartisan bills with strong support from all Americans. But instead of putting people first, too often he has put special interests first.
I think the American people said very clearly -- they rejected the extremism of the Republicans. That's why we won seats in the House. So, if they got the message from the American people that we have, we can meet in the middle and get these things done.
I think the priority has to be Social Security and Medicare,
In every issue there are winners are losers, and the losers are plenty.
My dad was a Teamster, ... I think there are a lot of working families out there that want a candidate for president and want a president that will remember the struggle that people go through every day to make a living, to raise their kids, to educate their kids, to have health care for their family.
Clearly, the election is going to be won in the Midwest and the Rust Belt, places where President Bush has been campaigning -- Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio -- places very similar to Iowa.
I'm glad President Bush unveiled his reform ideas last week, ... but we need to go further if we really want to clean up this system.